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622] TO JOHN CAESARIUS 45 mentionem admiscuerint: quasi parum fuisset ineptire, nisi nos 5 quoque vocassent in inuidiam, et magnam partem fructus tot studiorum laboribus expetiti corrupissent. Ne id quidem satis est visum ; en alter libellus priori adsimilis, in quibus crebra mentio fit eorum quibus scio lusus huiusmodi nequaquam probari. Quam male consulunt isti, non solum in seipsos, verum etiam in omnes quibus bone ro litere chare sunt. Iam illud est omnium molestissimum mihi, si modo verum est, quod mihi istinc reuersus famulus meus Iacobus narrauit, apud complures haberi Colonie libellum nescio quem in Iulium Pontificem, quomodo mortuus exclusus sit celo per Petrum. Audieram iam- 15 pridem huiusmodi fabulam actam in Gallia, vbi talium nugarum immodica licentia semper fuit. Eam, opinor, aliquis in Latinum sermonem transtulit. Demiror quid istis in mentem veniat, cum sic ocium et operam perdunt. Ceterum admiror esse qui suspicentur tam insignem ineptiam a me profectam ; opinor ob id quod sermo 20 fortasse sit paulo Latinior. Lusi quidem in Moria, sed incruente : nullius famam nominatim perstrinxi. In mores hominum lusimus, non in famam hominum. Que si vera mihi nunciauit famulus (nondum enim satis credo), queso te, vir optime, vt istiusmodi nugas impias pro tua virili premendas cures priusquam excudantur: non 25 quod isti digni sunt quibus hoc prestetur beneficii, sed quod nostrum est publice studiorum honestati consulere, quam isti talibus lusibus indigne contaminant. Porro quod ad me pertinet, scio neminem fore qui me norit, quin satis intelligat istiusmodi nenias mihi supra modum displicuisse, quippe indignas eruditis ac probis viris. 30 Iacobo Hornensi multam ex me salutem dicito, cuius epistola dici 14. Rhomanum post Pontificem add. B. 23. Que aB: Quod LB. optime om. B. gi. Lacobo... 35. Caesari om. B. 24. vir edition of Bk. i (Ep. 363), which had reached Basle by 25 Oct. 1516 (Zw. E?. 19 quoting Hoy. i. 46). He is more freely handled in Bk. ii (l. 8) which contains the famous judgement, ‘ Erasmus est homo pro se’ (No. 59). This had been seen at Nuremberg by 17 April 1517 (SE. 127) ; cf. also Ep. 581. 13-6. 13. Iacobus] Cf. Ep. 595. II n. 16. in Gallia] See Ep. 502 introd. gi. Iacobo] Jas, Teyng (+20 April 1530) of Hoorn in N. Holland ; hence Ceratinus. He was now studying at Cologne under Caesarius (cf. Ep. 610. 48); but after taking his degree he proceeded to Paris in 1519, and there visited Budaeus in June (Ep. 992). Thence he went on to Basle, but in Sept. was driven away by the plague (BRE. 125). In Dec. he stood unsuccessfully against Goclen for the Latin chair in Busleiden’s college (Val. Andreas, Collegi triling. Buslid. exordia, 1614, pp. 9,47; cf. Lond. xiii. 26, LB. 346, which is probably addressed to him). About 1520 he began teaching in de Keysere’s college at Tournay (cf. Ep. 525 introd.) ; but by Sept. 1521 had been driven back to Louvain by plague (Lond. xvii. 12, LB. 595). Erasmus was warmly interested in his welfare (Lond. xxx. 9, LB. 627 ; also 01, pp. 5, 6,14) and persuaded him to undertake a new edition of Craston’s Greek dictionary, which Froben published for him July 1524, with a preface by Erasmus. He was then tutor to the children of Gilles Busleiden (p. 108) at Brussels (EE. 28); but at the end of the year he was persuaded by Erasmus
